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V800 user reviews |
masseur
Joined: Jan 03, 2003
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From: Sydney, London
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nope. I had a chat late today with Vodafone and they didn't want to offer me any deal close to what I was prepared to pay so its been master reset and boxed up again ready to go back to them tomorrow
strangely, I don't feel bad about that so I guess I won't miss the V800 much although the main benefit was 3G data speeds which will be missed but I am finding more and more BT openzone wifi hotspots for my iPAQ and laptop these days so maybe its not such a big deal
I took the V800 and the V3 to the pub this afternoon and the majority of mates, wives and girlfriends were not that fussed with Vodafone live even on 3G and most would have taken the Motorola V3 (given the chance!)
It was nice to get a few days with the V800 but I think I won't miss it however I will reconsider that thought in the new year when I hear more about other peoples experiences and if the price and/or usage charges fall to a more acceptable level given how much use I will make of 3G
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02
Joined: Sep 24, 2004
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From: UK Birmingham
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Great work!! I'll bet we'll all miss ur V800... as it has given us a gd photo shoot and reviews... anyways.. is that the original video screen size?? its really small comparing wth nokia's. Or u choosen a smaller size for it? |
masseur
Joined: Jan 03, 2003
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From: Sydney, London
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if you mean font size then its the original and I didn't see any way to change that anyway like you used to be able to on older models
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02
Joined: Sep 24, 2004
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From: UK Birmingham
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no not the font... i mean.. the size of the video u taken using the V800 is really small... and if i zoom in 200% the video got all pixeled up.. so the video u recorded is that the normal size? |
etaab
Joined: Jan 23, 2004
Posts: > 500
From: UK - South Yorkshire
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After reading Masseurs review, im rather disappointed in the V800.
Im glad i didnt go out and buy it on impulse.
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vladichelsea
Joined: Aug 10, 2004
Posts: 50
From: London
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i read a review of v800 in yesterdays sunday times. the guy was quite impressed, but he took into account the quality of the vodas 3G live service as well. anybody else read it? |
Dragonfly_TP
Joined: Aug 11, 2004
Posts: > 500
From: Belgium
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okay this I don't like! I charged the battery of the V800 yesterday morning. I have not use the phone except the alarm in the morning. This morning I lost one black bar on the battery indicator and the second was gray. I go to vlive and liveTV and start the news (to test it for a customer who complained not having sound with the news) I looked at it (didn't hear anything though) and after 30 seconds I went back to main screen. all in all 3 minutes on wap via UMTS and I lost the gray bar and an aditional black one, leaving 2 black bars on the indicator.
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msmmsm
Joined: Sep 03, 2003
Posts: 187
From: Edinburgh
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@vee
I bought a PAYG sim and put it into my V800, I can get all the features of 3g (inlcuding video calling) but when I try to download of live!, I only get gprs speeds (~10ks)
I have had 3g enabled on the sim, have called Vodaphone about this issue and they are looking into it, when I mentioned about this usim, they insisted all sims were the same.
Thinking of going to Vodaphone shop to try a PAYG 3G phone sim |
vee
Joined: Jun 22, 2004
Posts: 435
From: Zagreb, HR
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@msmmsm
Thanks for the info. I know that 2g sims are usually 32k and u-sims should be 64k or 128k and the thing I mentioned before. I got 6630 from ONE Austria and they said 3g services will not work withou U-sim. I am in Croatia and stupid ONE locked 6630 so I can not use it at the moment because on unlock code yet and ONE wants 110 eur to unlock. TC,
Velimir
Sorry again for offtopic discussion
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msmmsm
Joined: Sep 03, 2003
Posts: 187
From: Edinburgh
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Took a picture with the V800, then sent it via email(150k) using both my contract 3g sim, then my payg sim. Had full 3g reception and the transfer rate was the same, looks like it's only the download speed thats increased, upload stays the usual gprs speed.
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masseur
Joined: Jan 03, 2003
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From: Sydney, London
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On 2004-11-15 13:14:49, msmmsm wrote:
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just a tad as this is a review thread. probably better to continue (as requested) in one of the general discussion threads please
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amnesia
Joined: Jan 15, 2004
Posts: > 500
From: Doha, London, Tokyo, Shanghai
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WHAT A GREAT REVIEW!
I like the format, and I think I'll use it for reviewing the A1000 and E1000. (of course if it's alright with you)
EXCELLENT! I'm sure everybody interested in the phone will be satisfied.
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Dragonfly_TP
Joined: Aug 11, 2004
Posts: > 500
From: Belgium
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Believe it or not, if I put an old 8k simcard in this V800 it works! same speeds on UMTS! The upload on UMTS is 64kbits, compair that to 43 something download at GPRS it's almost the same. Download on UMTS though, is around 144kbits. Vlive platform suffers from the lack of speed. It will be upgraded (globally) next year to get the full potential speed of umts!
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howai
Joined: Aug 29, 2003
Posts: 42
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wow.. very great review!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
themazejb
Joined: Nov 13, 2004
Posts: 23
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Good reivew. slightly disappointed with the phone...
Is it sure that the phone can't show caller picture ID on the external screen... ? It is a shame for a phone with 65k external screen can't have this simple function. |
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Posted: 2004-11-14 22:32
